The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-06
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| from New York to Troy C4S miles, without STOP
A MOUNTAIN RAT, 10 inches high and about
| foot long, captured on the Island of Trinidad
has been added to the Central Park IN. "
! menageric
| THE skull of an Indian child, with string of
! copper beads about the neck, was recently un-
! earthed on the beach at Ipswich, Mass The
teeth in the under jaw were perfect.
WHALERs at New Bedford, Mass. say that a
| result of the interstate commerce law will be
resort to the old method of bringing cargoes of
| oil and wlIalebone from San Francisco around
! Cape Horn.
! A PARTY of young brutes at Belleville, Can,
| compelled reformed drunkard to drink liquor,
his old appetite overpowered him, he was ar
rested, and died very soon after recovering from
his debauch
A. S. BACHELOR publishes a card in one of
the Littleton, On H. papers to the effect that if
| the party who borrowed the first volume of his
| six-volume history of Rome will send him his
address he viii give him the other five volumes,
as lit seems a pity that the set should be
broken"
| AT the opening of the church at Cannes, built
in memory of the late Duke of Albany, the priest
| who read the lessons wore a moustache. The
Prince of Wales, to whom he was introduced,
| observing the hirSute appendage to the clerical
| upper lip, suggested that the ornament should
| be removed. The suggestion was carried out.
| HERE is an excellent example of the manner
| in which the British taxpayer is looted on all
| sides. Two years ago the government paid
| $4,000 for huts and timber at Port Hamilton.
Recently, on our abandoning that station, all
| these materials were sold to one Tab Lee, II
| Chinese merchant, for $3.50, including free de-
| livery.
THE Martinez (Cal.) Item says: Bob Lees
black bear at Port Costa got loose Saturday
and made a break for the barber shop, seated
| himself in the chair, viewed his proportions in
| the mirror at all angles, and then made break
| for the BARRIERS bed and turned In for a nap.
| His slumberS were rudely disturbed and he was
| returned to his den.
WHILE a man named Roger was washing
linen on the Quai des Tueries on Tuesday he
| fell into the river and was drowned A pierman
| of a steamboat company jumped in to save
| him, and at the same time found another body,
| that OF a man wearing the uniform of bank
messenger which appeared to have been in the
| water for week or two.
| FEW YEARS AGO, during the construction of
| the Bar Harbor branch of the Maine Central
| railroad, one of the bosses shot and killed an
| Italian laborer. He was arrested and revolver
| was taken from him, but later he escaped from
| jail, and nothing was heard from him till the
| other day, when the officer who made the arrest
| received letter from the shootest, dated in
| Canada, asking for the return of that revolver!
| THE coal beds of China are five times as large
as those of all Europe, while gold, silver lead,
| tin, copper, iron, marble and petroleum are all
| found in the greatest abundance, Owing to the
] prejudice of the people the mines have never
| been worked to any extent, it being the popular
| belief in China that if these mines are opened,
| thousands of demons and spirits imprisoned in
the earth would come forth and fill the country
| with war and suffering.
THEY never have any breach of promise cases
| in China. future Chinese belle is not three
days old before her parents have betrothed her
to some acceptable scion of a neighbours house.
When she is old enough-and she does not have
to be very old; If she were in England she would
be still playing with her doll-she goes to the
home of her affianced and marries him. She
weepS and walls all the way there as if her idea
| of matrimony was not exactly cheerful one
| There is always mourning at a Chinese mar
| riage while at a Chinese funeral there is always
| a band of music and rejoicing. l ~
DR.. MARY WAIkER is becoming ubiquitous
She has something of a law practice in Wash
! ing besides bcr practice as doctor In Buffalo
she has branch office and partner, and in
| OsweS1 she occasionally looks after a few pa
tients. Besides, she has time TO run around the
| country and drop in at Albany to see her old
| friend, Gen. Hustled. DIR. Walker does not be-
| neve in halfway methods Of dress reform. She
| thinks woman will never be properly recognized
| as the equal OF man until she dons the garments
| of man without qualification or compromise
| Her present apparel is some two years behind
| the fashionable requirements of the man about
town.
| A REMARKABLE ILLUSTRATION of the puzzling
| migratory habits of the herring has Just been
| observed on the southwest coast of Norway, at
| the so-called JRderen, between the towns of
! Stavanger and Egersund. This district used to
be one of the richest herring fishing grounds in
Norway during the spring, but about twenty
| five years ago the fish suddenly and completely
| disappeared from the coast. Last month enor-
nous shoals once more came under shore first
/ striking land at the same spot as in former
times. The quality of the herring is exactly the
| same as it was twenty-five years ago and the
| shoals were accompanied by numerous 'her-
| ring whales.
| "REDoUTE," or masked ball, was given re-
| Gently at the Hotel Continental in Paris, by the
young men of the aristocratic clubs in compH
ment to the fastest women of the theatrical
world, and others no less fast who are not ON
| the stage. A considerable number of ladies of
| quality got themselves invited, and kept on
their masks all night At 2 in the morning there
was farandole in which all went dancing off
to the Francis |. gallery, where they supped in
parties of ten. The cotilon an opportun-
ty for presenting costly tokens to pretty dan
settses, and ddnSeurs availed themselves of it to
do So The great object of the young club men
was TO bring about return to the sort of dissi-
patton which tlourshed under the empire.
For some time there have been rlImors of a
revolutionary conspiracy widespread among the
aristocracy Of Russia, having for its object the
removal of Car Alexander III. and the crown
ing in his stead Of the eldest son of Alexander
II. by his morganatic wife, the Princess Dolgo-
rouki Failing in that the efforts would be cen
tired on putting the young Dolgorouki in sue
cesson to the Car instead of the present Care
witch. the last named Prince being both an in
valid and an imbecle. Young Dolgorouki is a lad
of splendid character and attainments who
would at once give Russia liberal constit,I-
tional government. In the eyes of the people
there is little or no bemish on his parentaRe
The DolgoroulSi family is one of the oldest and
noblest in Russia, its members having been
great princes before the Romanoffs We're heard
of. The present Gar is Holstein- Gottorp far
more German than Russian.
A GOOD STORY is told about an amable gentle
man who once represented this country at Lon
don in the capacity of Consul General 1t is not
necessary to give his name but it is sufficient to
say that he was appointed by Gen. Grant. One
of the members of his family was a young snip
of boy just out of school. The Consul General
desired TO find some employment for the youth
and not wishing TO give him place in his own
office had him attached TO the American Lega-
ton at a nominal salary. In little while the
young man began receiving social attentions
from which the father ives disbarred This CON
tinued until the boy knew everybody in London
worth knowing while the father, so far as social
distinction went, was a practical nonentitv
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